Samuel JohnsonH. Holt, 1944 - 599 sivua Samuel Johnson was a pessimist with an enormous zest for living. It has been said that no one was ever more typically English and it has also been said that he is one of the world's greatest eccentrics. But no other single trait of his character is quite so striking as the strange combination of deeply pessimistic convictions with an enormous - almost Gargantuan - appetite for learning, for literature, for good company, and for food. The literature surrounding Samuel Johnson is enormous and there is probably no other English man of letters except Shakespeare whom so many people acknowledge as the chief interest in their lives. They not only write books and read papers, they also form clubs, give dinners, stage celebrations, and collect curios. |
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... kind of writing - and one kind only - he can already do well . To the end of his life , Boswell's attempts to deal with abstract ideas . were usually rather feeble and his verse , which he continued nevertheless to write , very sad ...
... kind of writing - and one kind only - he can already do well . To the end of his life , Boswell's attempts to deal with abstract ideas . were usually rather feeble and his verse , which he continued nevertheless to write , very sad ...
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... kind of good writ- ing , call Dryden and Pope " classics of our prose . " Contemporaries of the latter , even contemporaries of Johnson , could hardly be expected to know , as we do , that the new method , once it had been developed ...
... kind of good writ- ing , call Dryden and Pope " classics of our prose . " Contemporaries of the latter , even contemporaries of Johnson , could hardly be expected to know , as we do , that the new method , once it had been developed ...
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... kind of literature , and especially that kind of poetry , which he did like.5 It is no wonder , then , that once he had begun to write on a subject so congenial , even Johnson wrote more than he was compelled to write , and that those ...
... kind of literature , and especially that kind of poetry , which he did like.5 It is no wonder , then , that once he had begun to write on a subject so congenial , even Johnson wrote more than he was compelled to write , and that those ...
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London or The Full Tide of Human | 27 |
Running About the World | 59 |
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